FAST AND ROBUST IMAGE MATCHING USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND RELAXATION

Desire Sidibe, Philippe Montesinos, Stefan Janaqi

2007

Abstract

This paper tackles the difficult, but fundamental, problem of image matching under projective transformation. Recently, several algorithms capable of handling large changes of viewpoint as well as large scale changes have been proposed. They are based on the comparison of local, invariants descriptors which are robust to these transformations. However, since no image descriptor is robust enough to avoid mismatches, an additional step of outliers rejection is often needed. The accuracy of which strongly depends on the number of mismatches. In this paper, we show that the matching process can be made robust to ensure a very few number of mismatches based on a relaxation labeling technique. The main contribution of this work is in providing an efficient and fast implementation of a relaxation method which can deal with large sets of features. Futhermore, we show how the contextual information can be obtained and used in this robust and fast algorithm. Experiments with real data and comparison with other matching methods, clearly show the improvements in the matching results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sidibe D., Montesinos P. and Janaqi S. (2007). FAST AND ROBUST IMAGE MATCHING USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND RELAXATION . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-74-0, pages 68-75. DOI: 10.5220/0002054400680075

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp07,
author={Desire Sidibe and Philippe Montesinos and Stefan Janaqi},
title={FAST AND ROBUST IMAGE MATCHING USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND RELAXATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={68-75},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002054400680075},
isbn={978-972-8865-74-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - FAST AND ROBUST IMAGE MATCHING USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND RELAXATION
SN - 978-972-8865-74-0
AU - Sidibe D.
AU - Montesinos P.
AU - Janaqi S.
PY - 2007
SP - 68
EP - 75
DO - 10.5220/0002054400680075